Maybe Tomorrow

August 18, 2009

The Gardener by Fergus Neff

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Story:

Argarrai is a retired space port manager. His successful life has been marred by the suspicious death of his wife and their younger daughter. Visited on his death bed by a stranger, he is given an intimidating proposition – to accept the responsibility of becoming the caretaker, the Gardener, for a universe – in reward all his questions will be answered…  but at what cost?

Author Bio:

Fergus Neff was born in 1975 and grew up in the small town of Greystones on the east coast of Ireland. He now lives in a suburb of Dublin with his partner where he works as a software developer and entrepreneur.  Fergus has been a story teller for over fifteen years but as a song-writing musician. He has released a small amount of electronic music in the form of “The Void Which Binds” EP (Chilly Recordings 2007) and mainly writes and plays guitar based music with his band “The Credits”.

In early 2009 he started writing fiction, with “The Gardener” being the first of a themed series of science-fiction short stories to be published. Fergus is also working on his first children’s book that he is hoping to release in 2010.

His other passions include sports cars, horses and his blog – blogisonfire.com – that covers myriad topics in the fields of music, business, writing and technology.

Follow Fergus on Twitter: @chillyspoon

August 10, 2009

Life by Sheila Deeth

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Story:

Being one of the first to walk on an alien planet isn’t quite living up to Jen’s high expectations. But when she looks for someone with time to talk to her, the consequences might be more than anyone expects.

Author Bio:

Sheila Deeth grew up in the UK and has a Bachelors and Masters in mathematics from Cambridge University, England. She moved to the States with her husband and sons in 1996 and recently became a US citizen. She describes herself as an English American, a Catholic Protestant, a mathematician who can’t add up, and a writer who can’t spell.

Sheila started telling stories before she learned to talk, but only her mother and brother could understand. In school she spun tales to keep students quiet when teachers had to step out. Then the teachers threatened to record her stories on a reel-to-reel tape-recorder; Sheila decided the pen was less frightening than the microphone and learned to write instead.

On discovering that mathematicians get full marks for doing things right, and writers only get partial credit, Sheila chose to study mathematics at college. Of course, college mathematicians never get full marks. Afterwards she became a computer programmer, writing programs instead of stories. Then she took a job as a quality assurance engineer and was paid to make programs break.

Meanwhile Sheila told stories to her sons, to chess club, to Sunday school classes… and eventually, when her job was outsourced, even to the computer. Of course, this computer has spell-check and grammar-check, so it makes a useful listener. The internet lets her send stories to publishers, and publishers occasionally print them, thus fulfilling Sheila’s life-long dream of being listened to by more than just family and friends, without using a microphone.


August 8, 2009

Journey to Nowhere by Fran Lewis

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Journey to Nowhere by Fran Lewis

Story:

JourneyToNowhere

Imagine coming home from work and realizing that your entire life is about to change. Imagine your wife and kids leaving with a total stranger and you had no warning as to why and where they are going? Imagine searching for them and finding yourself transported into different places, different times and yet the same date. Journey to Nowhere will take you into an entire different dimension of time and you will see things in a different way.

Author Bio:

Born in the South Bronx, I grew up with people from many ethnic backgrounds. I learned to play and work with children in my school that came from other countries and different places.
I was always overweight as a child and got picked on a lot by the other children in my class and even my teachers. I found it hard to do many of the sporting activities that my sister and cousins could do. I learned at an early age that kids can be mean and I promised myself that I would never retaliate or do mean things to other kids in return.

When I decided to write my short stories I realized that I had a lot to say about my youth and in both of my books I tell about a ten year old girl named Bertha who learns to deal with real life issues kids face today at home and in school.

As an educator I the New York City Public Schools for over 36 years, I realized just how unique and precious our children are. I was the reading and writing staff developer in my school and the dean. I loved the children and had the respect of my fellow teachers and parents.

Teaching children to read was really very rewarding and introducing them to writing and creating their own stories was exciting for the students.

I love reading different kinds of books in many different genres. I have started reviewing books of new authors and those that are more established. I love giving them great reviews and saying wonderful things about their writing.

As a new member of Who’s Who of Cambridge’s Executives, Professionals and Educators I have been fortunate to meet many educators and authors throughout the world. I enjoy reviewing books for authors upon request, as well as reviewing books for ijustfinished.com, manic readers and Bookpleasures.com.

August 7, 2009

Deathless by Carole Gill

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Deathless by Carole Gill

Story:

Represents "Deathless" by Carole Gill

Representing "Deathless" by Carole Gill

It is the year 2299. The Guardians – a hybrid species of aliens and humans guide mankind in a God-centered society. There is no death. Human citizens are vaccinated against old age and disease at birth. Requests for life termination are few. Albin 157 is told that his son has requested termination…

Author Bio:
Born in Manhattan, resident in the U.K. through marriage—Carole is fully ensconced in a life of domestic bliss—interrupted periodically by two lunatic Parson Russell Terriers. The dogs and her husband are however completely house broken.

Carole wrote her first story (science fiction) at age eight—some utter nonsense about Martians coming to take earth’s children back with them. Her teacher thought she was a genius which only confirmed what her parents thought. Carole however knew the truth. No genius she—not then not ever!

Her schooling was erratic but always interesting.

“I have dropped out of such a variety of schools, that it has given me a well-rounded education!”

Her proof:

She attended nursing school, art school, two universities, secretarial school and acting school. Secretarial school was at least completed! She has worked as: a receptionist, a hotel reservationist, a waitress, a sales girl/lady, a medical secretary and an executive secretary. Now because of her completely understanding and angelic husband she is writing full-time.

Some years ago she was selected by North West Playwrights of England for further development, but found she preferred writing novels and short stories. Thus far she has written two novels—neither in her preferred genre of supernatural fiction. Currently she is writing a dark-themed sci fi novel.

She hopes to write two novels a year and has already begun to overwork herself in preparation!

August 6, 2009

A Starting Point

It started with a press release;

Mar 21, 2009 – ‘Another Time, Another Place’ is the title of an exciting new project launched by innovative publisher, Mythica Publishing Ltd. Authors, whether new or experienced are invited to submit short stories up to 4,500 words in length for this anthology, which will appear initially in e-book format. A decision on whether to release it in a print version will be taken at a later date.

mythica-publishing-ltdEach story, which must be a thriller,  must have a ‘futuristic’ element to it and should be set at some time in the future, whether it be one year from now or a thousand years in the future. Thus, writers are able to expand their horizons, and if they so wish, create a society with a difference in which to set their stories.

The anthology will be compiled and edited by award-winning author Brian L Porter, winner of ‘The Preditors & Editors Best Thriller Novel of 2008 Award’ for his superb psychological thriller ‘A Study in Red – The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper’.

Submissions in the form of Word.doc format, should be emailed to thrillerDOTeditorATgmailDOTcom before the end of May 2009 and further information on the project can be obtained by contacting the publisher at mythicapublishing@gmail.com

There were so many submissions that Mythica decided to release not one but two anthologies. The second, named “Maybe Tomorrow”, is the subject of this website.

Over the next while we will post synopses and excerpts of the stories, author biographies and websites, links to other blogs and relevant materials as we approach the publication date of Maybe Tomorrow.

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